Benford's Law

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gptkbp:instanceOf mathematical law
gptkbp:appliesTo financial data
sports statistics
scientific research data
business metrics
many sets of numerical data
gptkbp:basedOn the logarithm of numbers
gptkbp:description the frequency distribution of leading digits
gptkbp:first_held 1881
gptkbp:hasPrograms data analysis
machine learning
data mining
forensic accounting
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Benford's Law
gptkbp:illustratedBy Frank_Benford_in_1938
gptkbp:is_a_subject_of statistics
number theory
data science
fraud detection methodology
gptkbp:is_a_tool_for analyzing large datasets
detecting anomalies
validating data integrity
gptkbp:is_available_in histograms
bar charts
gptkbp:is_featured_in normal distribution
a universal law
random distribution
gptkbp:is_used_in data scientists
accountants
fraud detection
chi-squared tests
statisticians
auditors
Kolmogorov-Smirnov_tests
gptkbp:previousName gptkb:Frank_Benford
the first-digit law
gptkbp:related_to logarithmic distribution
scale invariance
gptkbp:state the first digit is more likely to be small
gptkbp:suitableFor stock prices
election data
randomly generated numbers
scientific data
demographic data
population numbers
internet data
uniform distributions
gptkbp:visitedBy data manipulation
real-world data